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...abysmal failures that included the botched standoff at Ruby Ridge and the betrayal by Robert Hanssen, who spied for the Russians for years while working inside the FBI. And many of the things that went "according to the book" inside the FBI made no sense at all. For years agents were barred from searching open sources, such as the Internet, without first opening a formal investigation. Agents had a deeply ingrained habit of keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy...
...information on al-Midhar and al-Hazmi. On Aug. 22, the INS tells them al-Midhar returned to the U.S. in July. The CIA puts al-Midhar and al-Hazmi on the TIPOFF watch list and asks the FBI to look for them. The FBI assigns one agent, with no counterterrorism experience, to track down al-Midhar. Only on 9/11, in the hours before the attacks, does he ask the Los Angeles field office for help. Earlier, a New York FBI agent involved in the Cole criminal investigation asks colleagues for more information about al-Midhar but is told...
Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams sends a memo to two units at FBI headquarters in Washington and to the New York field office describing 10 foreign students at aviation schools who are under investigation for ties to Sunni extremists. Williams theorizes that bin Laden could be systematically sending students to study aviation in the U.S. and recommends that agents compile a list of such schools, establish contacts with them, discuss his theory with the rest of the intelligence community and obtain background information on foreign students applying to flight schools...
Last year Morris—the Harvard record-holder in eight of nine receiving categories and one of the top wide receivers in Ivy League history—was expected to be picked late in the draft. Instead, he ended up waiting for a free-agent signing to be his ticket into the pros...
Balestracci takes comfort from his example, and the similar story of offensive lineman Soriano, a free agent signed to the New England Patriots’ practice squad also playing in the NFL Europe this spring...